Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

- Morgan, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

24.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

48.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven